Zulfikar Khan

Zulfikar Khan (1637-Winter 1700) was a general of the Mughal Empire.

Biography
Zulfikar Khan was born to a Muslim family in Bijapur in the Mughal Empire, but his family fled when the Maratha Confederacy took over the region in the 1680s. He became a high-ranking general, but he was a coward and inept defender. Although the Marathas had a poor starting position with only Bijapur and Carnatica supporting them, the Mughals had 500,000 poorly-trained and poorly-led commanders.

Death
Zulfikar Khan's Mughal army marched south of Hyderabad, a city which had recently fallen into the hands of the Marathas. He blundered upon Balkrishna Indukuri's Maratha army south of the city in the Battle of Siddapur, during which he was attacked by Indukuri himself along with his elephants. Khan's cavalry bodyguards were routed and he was killed by the elephant troops.